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Stop search engines from indexing .txt, .log, .xml, .css and .js files in Nginx
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nginx.conf
location ~* \.(txt|log|xml|css|js)$ {
add_header X-Robots-Tag noindex;
}
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Thanks @sergejmueller

I've expanded this to noindex non-programming files that Google claims to index.

## allowed: html, xml (also css, js, php, etc)
## Ref: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35287?hl=en

location ~* \.(asp|aspx|doc|docx|dwf|gpx|htm|hwp|jsp|kml|kmz|log|odp|ods|odt|pdf|ppt|pptx|ps|rtf|tex|text|txt|wap|wml|xls|xlsx)$ {
    set $robots "noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive";
}

Ref: https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/edit/master/modules/nginx/sites/production.txt

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